|Rank|Athlete|Country|Time|Notes|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Nataliya Petrusyova|Soviet Union|1:24.10|OR|
||Leah Poulos|United States|1:25.41||
||Sylvia Albrecht|East Germany|1:26.46||
|4|Karin Enke|East Germany|1:26.66||
|5|Beth Heiden|United States|1:27.01||
|6|Annie Borckink|Netherlands|1:27.24||
|7|Sylvia Burka|Canada|1:27.50||
|8|Ann-Sofie Järnström|Sweden|1:28.10||
|9|Sylvia Filipsson|Sweden|1:28.18||
|10|Annette Carlén-Karlsson|Sweden|1:28.25||
|11|Valentina Lalenkova|Soviet Union|1:28.27||
|12|Bjørg Eva Jensen|Norway|1:28.55||
|13|Sijtje van der Lende|Netherlands|1:28.72||
|14|Sarah Docter|United States|1:28.80||
|14|Haitske Valentijn-Pijlman|Netherlands|1:28.80||
|16|Erwina Ryś-Ferens|Poland|1:28.82||
|17|Miyoshi Kato|Japan|1:28.97||
|18|Christa Rothenburger|East Germany|1:29.69||
|19|Brenda Webster|Canada|1:29.84||
|20|Irina Kuleshova-Kovrova|Soviet Union|1:29.94||
|21|Monika Pflug|West Germany|1:30.13||
|22|Makiko Nagaya|Japan|1:30.27||
|23|Sigrid Smuda|West Germany|1:30.29||
|24|Kathy Vogt|Canada|1:30.33||
|25|Yuko Yaegashi-Ota|Japan|1:30.72||
|26|Lee Nam-Sun|South Korea|1:31.30||
|27|Cao Guifeng|China|1:31.74||
|28|Anneli Repola|Finland|1:31.76||
|29|Silvia Brunner|Switzerland|1:31.79||
|30|Lee Seong-Ae|South Korea|1:32.04||
|31|Zhang Li|China|1:32.20||
|32|Shen Zhenshu|China|1:32.49||
|33|Brigitte Flierl|West Germany|1:33.61||
|34|Kim Yeong-Hui|South Korea|1:34.17||
|35|Kim Ferran|Great Britain|1:34.19||
|36|Marzia Peretti|Italy|1:35.66||
|37|Mandy Horsepool|Great Britain|1:36.31||

Question: how many athletes are from east germany?
Answer: 3